- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Cognitive Biology: The New Cognitive Sciences
- II SPACE
- 2 The Role of Social Selection in the Evolution of Hippocampal Specialization
- 3 Spatial Cognition, Memory Capacity, and the Evolution of Mammalian Hippocampal Networks
- 4 Space for the Brain in Cognitive Science
- 5 Animals as Natural Geometers
- 6 Is Cognitive Modularity Necessary in an Evolutionary Account of Development?
- III QUALITIES AND OBJECTS
- 7 Color Generalization by Birds
- 8 Evolutionary Biology of Limited Attention
- 9 Learning to See and Conceive
- IV NUMBERS AND PROBABILITY
- 10 A Comparative Perspective on the Origin of Numerical Thinking
- 11 Numerical and Spatial Intuitions: A Role for Posterior Parietal Cortex?
- 12 Learning in Core and Noncore Domains
- 13 Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economic Behavior: The Emerging Field of Neuroeconomics
- V SOCIAL ENTITIES
- 14 Neuroethology of Attention in Primates
- 15 The Human Social Brain: An “Evo-Devo” Perspective
- 16 Ontogenetic Development Matters
- Contributors
- Index
Learning in Core and Noncore Domains
Learning in Core and Noncore Domains
- Chapter:
- (p.247) 12 Learning in Core and Noncore Domains
- Source:
- Cognitive Biology
- Author(s):
Rochel Gelman
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter focuses on domain-specific approaches to learning. It discusses the notion of a domain, core and noncore domains, structure mapping, and the domains of animate and inanimate causality. The chapter also identifies the primary features of noncore domains and concludes by contrasting core and noncore domains.
Keywords: domain-specific approach, learning, domain, structure mapping, animate causality, inanimate causality, noncore domains
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Cognitive Biology: The New Cognitive Sciences
- II SPACE
- 2 The Role of Social Selection in the Evolution of Hippocampal Specialization
- 3 Spatial Cognition, Memory Capacity, and the Evolution of Mammalian Hippocampal Networks
- 4 Space for the Brain in Cognitive Science
- 5 Animals as Natural Geometers
- 6 Is Cognitive Modularity Necessary in an Evolutionary Account of Development?
- III QUALITIES AND OBJECTS
- 7 Color Generalization by Birds
- 8 Evolutionary Biology of Limited Attention
- 9 Learning to See and Conceive
- IV NUMBERS AND PROBABILITY
- 10 A Comparative Perspective on the Origin of Numerical Thinking
- 11 Numerical and Spatial Intuitions: A Role for Posterior Parietal Cortex?
- 12 Learning in Core and Noncore Domains
- 13 Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economic Behavior: The Emerging Field of Neuroeconomics
- V SOCIAL ENTITIES
- 14 Neuroethology of Attention in Primates
- 15 The Human Social Brain: An “Evo-Devo” Perspective
- 16 Ontogenetic Development Matters
- Contributors
- Index